{"id":748832,"date":"2026-10-13T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-bitcoin-kidding-itself-about-the-lightning-network\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:00:49","slug":"is-bitcoin-kidding-itself-about-the-lightning-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-bitcoin-kidding-itself-about-the-lightning-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bitcoin kidding itself about the Lightning Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc says Bitcoiners are lying to themselves about Lightning. Developers claim usability has improved, but questions remain over everyday adoption.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc ruffled a few feathers this month with a brutally blunt assessment of the Lightning Network: Bitcoiners are lying to themselves about how well it works.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people don\u2019t realize how bad the Lightning Network is,\u201d Sztorc said<\/a> in an October 4 post on X, \u201cbecause there has been a vast, years long conspiracy to ***lie*** about the LN user experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued that custodial Lightning services account for more than 80% of payments, and described their promotion as a \u201cvast campaign of fraud on par with Elizabeth Holmes\u2019 Theranos,\u201d he said, referring to fake blood-testing device company whose founder was convicted of fraud.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc says Bitcoiners are lying to themselves about Lightning. Developers claim usability has improved, but questions remain over everyday adoption. Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc ruffled a few feathers this month with a brutally blunt assessment of the Lightning Network: Bitcoiners are lying to themselves about how well it works. \u201cMost people don\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}